Cold where you are?? I mean really cold? How are your chickens handling it?

[Cynthia12]

Here is a blue girl that I decide to take some pictures of. She was just standing there, then curled her leg and foot up, I was talking to her, and here's what she had to say back at me...or ask I should say.

Mom? When is this cold going away? My feet are so cold!! That's what she said,
pretty sure.
It has been either single digit, or minus here, but this gal is laying well, and, so are my other
ones that are laying hens. Good girls! How about you guys? Getting eggs where you are
if it's cold? I do have a heat lamp in the coop, but it doesn't keep it warm and cozy when it's
- 3 out there!

 

[Soleil_A]

right now we are on a wind chill warning, and i feel terrible for leaving my chickens outside in it. i am constantly bringing them warm food. they never want to come outside into the run!! it’s currently -5 right now but that’s with no wind chill. it feels like -24 is what my weather says. stay warm!

 

[Blooie]

Hey, Cynthia! Pretty girl!!

Don't worry about wind chill. It has no affect on critters that are sheltered and out of the wind. It's a perceived temperature - what the combination of wind and temperature feels like on exposed skin. No exposure, no wind chill. So the ambient temperature is the one you take into consideration.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

Tomorrow will be the coldest day so far this year where I live. -10F for high and -22F overnight. In preparation of that utilized the warm teens yesterday to replace the long over-doo litter in coop. Hay is tossed down in run area for them to walk on and they are getting more "treats" than normal. Sunflower seed and corn.

They certainly are not happily running about the yard like other seasons but are comfortable. More so than the puffed out birds coming to the feeders. Have a few Junco's that sit on the ground with feathers puffed like a ball under a feeder waiting for more seed to drop from Bluejays thrashing through it. They sit there barely moving all day.